Technical Product Manager - Paper/Plastics/Aluminum Verona

Technical Product Manager - Paper/Plastics/Aluminum
Verona
Veneto, Verona

Contract type**: Permanent

Workplace: Verona VR, Italia, Verona

**About the company

The Group stands for excellence in specialty papers for packaging, quality prints and fine arts and self-adhesives solutions.

Its strong organic growth, since 1888, has been recently boosted by acquisitions bringing a turnover of over 1, 3 billion € in 2020.

Today the Group is the third global player in self-adhesive materials and the European leader in specialty papers.

The Business Unit Paper is the division producing specialty papers for different end users: from special graphic papers for packaging, to papers for drawing and art, from natural papers to coated papers.

**Mission and key priorities of the role

We are looking for a highly motivated, proactive new member to join the Marketing team in Verona, in the role of **Product Manager** for the Paper BU.

In this position you will directly report to the Head of Product Marketing and you will play a key role in ensuring the correct management of our products, daily interfacing with different departments.

**Your responsibilities

- Develop/update/upgrade core portfolio

- Innovation Funnel: new product inception to launch

- Product mapping and benchmarking

- Active PLM: Product portfolio and life cycle management (margin monitoring, SKU Value Engineering and Rationalization)

- Be the R&D leaders' partner on New Products Development

- Follow up production trials, ensuring correct timings

- Update product value proposition on sales support channels

- Financial follow-up of current pipelines of tailored products

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor/Master's Degree - Chemistry, Materials Engineering, Design

- 5 years of experience in product management (cost analysis, technical, commercial) or in R&D departments as Project Manager

- Previous experience in paper/plastics/aluminum/tissue industry will be considered a plus

- Project management skills are required: ability to drive projects to conclusion and work effectively with a variety of people at various levels within the company

- Drives execution in complex set up (problem solving, cooperation, leadership, and drive goals/performance)

- High energy and "Go-getter" mindset, able to deal with stressful situations or tight deadlines, going above and beyond the scope of own job

- Fluent in Italian and English

LI-Hybrid